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'►ALBERT P. FORSYTH, —NICHOLAS FORD, 

•ADLAI E. .STEVENSON, —DANIEL L. RUSSELL, 
^GILBERT DE LA MATYR, >. WILLIAM D. KELLEY, 

•'EDWARD H. GILLETTE, HENDRICK B. %\TIIGHT, 

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"Among tbp represpntatives of this 
new ]):irtj-. Gen. Benjimiin ¥. Uutler 
stands out as the great leader — the 
man who, of all men in this country, 
combines ihe qualiii)-s of a leader such 
as is demanded by the exigencies of the 
times : a large brain, untiring energy, 
unswerving integrity, indomitable will, 
danntless courage, indepi'ndence of 
character: a man of intellectual pow- 
er and executive force: a man who has 
convictions ami dares maintain them ; 
a man who can be held to the support 
of a part3' only so long as it represents 
the principles which won hi.s alle- 
giance : a man who prefers defeat in 
the right to success in the wrong; a 
man whose i)ersonal. political, and 
military record invites criticism and 
defies slander, and whose personal 
))opularily is such as to make hi« name 
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Manifesto. ' . 

Tilis book is interesting and entertaining, 
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and raise gratitude for him wljo rendered 
such eflective sPi'vice in saving thenation'.s ' 
life. — Episcopal Re.ionltr. \ 

A CLEARl.v written, comprehensive and 
enthusiastic review of a remarkable man. — . 
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The story of this life is told in good style, 
6hari> and crisji in form, and with a good 
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finely, exhibiting judgment, research anil 
marke<l di'scriptivi- power. The book i> hand- 
somely ]u-inted, and has an e.\c<'llent steel 
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on the meritorious manner in wV.ich he has 
done his work. The millions of Gen. But- 
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llnd in this book ;i read\' lefi-reiue by which 
to defend their INIoses and the doctrines of 
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WILLIAM MANNING LOWE, THOMPSON H. MURCH, 

ALBERT P. FORSYTH, NICHOLAS FORD, 

ADLAI E. STEVENSON, DANIEL L. RUSSELL, 

GILBERT DE LA MATYR, WILLIAM D. KELLEY, 

EDWARD H. GILLETTE, HENDRICK B. WRIGHT, 

JAMES B. WEAVER, SETH H. YOCUM, 

GEORGE W. LADD, GEORGE W. JONES, 

BRADLEY BARLOW, 



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WrLlilAM MANNING LOWE, OF ALABAMA. 



William Mannii\^ Lowe was born in 
Huntsville, on the IGth of January, 1842. 
He is of pvn'e English blood on both sides, 
• but his ancestry have lived in America for 
two hundred years, hence he is a native 
American. He was 
educated at Wesley- 
an University, grad- 
uating in 1858. He 
also graduated from 
the law department 
of Cumberland Uni- 
versity, and was in 
the law class of the 
University of Vir- 
ginia when the war 
began, in April, 1861. 
He opposed secession 
until his State was 
swept into it, and 
then he enlisted as a 
private, rising by tal- 
ent and courage to 
the rank of lieuten- 
ant-colonel of caval- 
ry. 

Colonel Lowe be- 
\ longs to a Democratic 
family. His father 
was an elector -at- 
large for Alabama in 
the interest of Presi- 
dent .Jackson. After 
the war the Colonel was honored by the 
Legislature with an election to the respon- 
sible office of solicitor for his judicial dis- 
trict, of wliicli position he was deprived by 
the reconstruction acts of Congress. He 
was a member of the State Legislatm'e in 
1870, and of tlie constitutional'convention 
in 1875. He is the author of the clause in 
the bill of rights in the constitution of Ala- 
bama, which declares that no educational 
or property qualification for suffrage or of- 
fice shall ever be required. 

He became a Greenback man some years 
ago, through a careful study of stan- 
dard works on finance and political econ- 
omy, and was confirmed in the new doc- 
trine by the speeches of General Butler 
and other great statesmen. He supported 




Greeley in 1872, and in 187G he voted for 
Tilden under protest. Li 1878 he refused 
to go into tlie Democratic congressional 
convention, announcing himself an inde- 
pendent candidate for Congress on the Na- 
tional platform. He was triumphantly 
elected over Mr. Garth, the regular Demo- 
cratic nominee, at the 
close of one of the 
most active and vig- 
orous campaigns ever 
kno^\^l in this coun- 
try. Colonel Lowe 
canvassed his native 
district tlioroughly, 
defending his posi- 
tion and tlie doctrines 
of tbe ISTational party 
in speeches of gi-eat a- 
bility and eloquence. 
He was opposed not 
only by Mr. Garth, 
the regular Demo- 
cratic nominee, but 
by ail the country 
politicians, the lead- 
ing members of the 
bar, the majority of 
the clergy, and six- 
teen of the seventeen 
newspapers of the 
district ; and so deter- 
mined weie the Bour- 
bon leaders to defeat 
the yoiuig cliampion 
of honest money, that Governor Houston, 
Senator Morgan. General Walker, ex-secre- 
tary of war of the Southern Confederacy, 
Lieutenant Genei-al Wheeler, and other dis- 
tinguished orators, made speeclies against 
liini. His election was tlierefore a victory 
of marked significance. It proves that 
Colonel Lowe is a man of great ability, not 
only, but that when the doctrines of the 
National party are presented to the people 
of the South in a clear and forcible manner 
they accept them in such good faith that 
old party ties, stronger in the South than 
in any other section, are powerless to hold 
them. 

Colonel Lowe is a man of fine physique, 
good personal presence, excellent social 
qualities, polished manners, and pleasing; 



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address. He has a brain of almost Websterian 
proportions, which is adniirably balanced 
and well stored with information upon all 
useful subjects. He is a loji^ical, cultured, 
and eloquent speaker, humorous at times 
and ready at repartee always. He is one 
of the al>lest men in the present Cono:ress, 
and destined to rise to eminence, and leave 
his impn-ss upon the legislation of the na- 
tion. It will periiaps interest our lady 
readers to know that he is a bachelor. 



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AUBERT P. FORSYTH, OF FLLINOIS, 

is descended from hioli blooded, Scottish 
ancestry. His family, however, have been 




in this country for four generations. He 
was born at New Kichmond, Oiiio, May 24, 
1830. His father, who was a farmer, emi- 
grated to Greene county, Indiana, in 1S36, 
and opened a f;irm. Albert was educated 
to habits of industry and <'conomy on this 
farm, and got the jirimary lessons in litera- 
ture in the rude school house near by. 

He subscijuently attended a-T)^iblic school 
in Terre Haute, and also got two sessions 
at Asbury liiivi'isity. 

In 1802 he enlisted a company for the 
97th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was 
chosen first lieutenant ; in which position 
he served to tlic close of the war, passing 
through many iiard-fougiit l)attles. He 
could have had itr^)ni<ition l)y having his 
own company; bur dc^clined so to do. 

In 18G.5 he emigrated to Illinois, and 
located on the farm he still owns and occu- 



pies — in the northwestern corner of Edgar 
county. 

He has devoted himself solely to farming, 
and is a successfid and substantial repre- 
sentative of his honorable profession. 

His father was a Whig, and he graduated 
from that party into the Republican. He 
was a Thad. Stevens sort of Greenbacker 
in 18G2. and has not faltered in his faith in 
the legitimacy of that greatest product of 
the Republican party — the '"Rag Baby" — 
which saved the Union with one hand 
tied down. 

He joined the Patrons of Husbandry in 

1873, being made master of his Grange at 

once. In 1875 he was elected master of the 

State Grange of Illinois; which position 

tion he still holds. 

He took an active part in what was 
knowni as the farmers' movement of 
1872. organized chiefly to oppose the 
monopoly of the railroad rings. 

He began the public agitation of the 
financial question m 1874. by delivering 
a Greenback speech m Carlinville, 111.; 
and in 187G he supported Peter Cooper 
for President. Cooper got six votes in 
the Forsyth precinct, three of which 
were cast by Mr. F. and his family. 

He has never sought office, nor as- 
pired to public position ; but in 1878 the 
National Greenback Congressional Con- 
vention of his district (tiie fifteenth) 
nominated him by acclamation. He ac- 
cepted, and at once entered upon a most 
vigorous canvass. The district is com- 
])osed of nine counties, all heretofore 
Democratic — the usual aggregate major- 
ity exceeding ."i.OOO. .Tudge Decius, an 
old Democratic war-horse, was put for- 
ward by the Democratic convention, 
with every prospect of an easy and over- 
whelmiaig victorv. But Mr. Forsyth was 
not the sort of man tiiat iseasily defeat- 
ed. He represented principles which are 
founded in justice, and only needed to be 
properlj- presented to the people to win their 
allegiance. He therefore made a thorough 
canvass of the district, speaking not only 
in each county, but in almost every school 
house; and when the jiolls were elose<l and 
the votes counted, it was found, to the dis- 
m.ay of the Democratic leaders, that they 
had met their Wellington in Forsyth tlie 
farmer, and tlieir Waterloo in November, 
1878, Tiirir Napoleon (.Judge Decius) was 
banisht>d to the little inland village of 
I'rairie City, where, in the shades of private 
life, he is mourning over the sad fate of his 
once dominant but now defeated and 
broken down old party, while Mr. For- 
syth is crowned with congressional hon- 
ors at Wasliington, and honestly and 
ably representing the true interests of 
his constituents and of the whole country. 



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Mr. Forsyth is a man of great character. 
He is a %n2;orous thinker, and logical and 
forcible speaker; and his opinions carry- 
weight, because honestly held and earnestly 
presented. He is a stalwart National, of 
whom his party may well be proud, and in 
whom the people may trust their interests 
with safety. 

ADLAI E. STEVENSON, OF ILLINOIS, 

was born in Christian county, Kentucky, 
October 23, 1835, and educated at the Wes- 
leyan University, Illinois, and Centre Col- 
lege, Kentucky. He located in Blooming- 
ton, Illinois, in 1852, and adopted the 
profession of law. He has now an honored 
place at the bar of his county and State, 



of specie payments, also dictated by the 
public and private creditors of the country 
in their special interests. He therefore de- 
clared himself in favor of the policy of the 
National party, and made the race for 
Congress in 1878 as a National against 
Hon. J. F. Tipton, Republican — the Demo- 
crats chiefly supporting Stevenson. He 
was elected by a handsome majority; 
and, on taking his seat, united with the 
other National Congressmen in the forma- 
tion of a congressional committee, and 
the nomination of a candidate for Speaker. 
He has made a good record so far, and his 
constituents, and the Nationals throughout 
the country, look upon him as one of their- 
most able standard-bearers. 




and has established an enviable reputation 
for integritv and other manly qualities. In 
1861 he was elected to the office of master 
of chancery, which position he filled with 
ability for a term of four years. He served 
as State's attorney from 1865 to 1868. In 
1876, he was elected to Congress as a Demo- 
crat, and made an honorable record. The 
President selected him as one of the visitors 
to West Point Military Academy in 1877. 
Mr. Stevenson has given special attention 
to the subject of finance for some years ; 
and as a cf)nsequence he saw clearly that 
the panic of 1873, and the hard times which 
have paralyzed the industrial energies of 
the country, were legitimate fruits of the 
ruinous monopoly schemes of the old 
parties, adopted at the dictation of money- 
lenders ; and the contraction of the cur- 
renpy, necessary to reach the resumption 



GILBERT DE LA MATYR, OF INDIANA, 

is a native American of French and Eng- 
lish extraction. He was born in Chenango 
county. New York, July 8, 1825. lie re- 
ceived an academic education, and has ever 
been a good student. He was put to the 
trade of his father, that of a carpenter, 
taut entered the resrnlar ministry m the 
Methodist Episcopal Clnnxh, at the age of 
24, and made preaching his profession un- 
til his nomination for Congress in the sum- 
mer of 1878, at which time he was pastor 
of Roberts Park church, in the city of In- 
dianapolis. He has long been recognized 
by the laity and clergy of his denomina- 
tion as one of the ablest and most success- 
ful preachers they have. Wilamett Uni- 
versity, some years ago, in recognition of 
his ability and scholarsiiip, conferred upon 
him the degree of Doctor of Diifinity, 



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Dr. Do La MatjT was a Eepublicau f mm 
the organization of that party, and took 
an active part in politico. He was reco;?- 
nized as an able political speaker, and in 
both of the Lincoln campaigns he ren- 
dered eflBcient service to the party as an 
orator. lie was an ardent and active 
Union man dnring the war. with some 
assistance raising and organizing two regi- 
ments and a battery, for whioii he re- 
ceived the tiianks of tiie War Department. 

He entered tiie service as chaplain of the 
8th New York hea\y artillery in 18G2. and 
served till tlie close of tlie war, when he 
returned to the regular work of the minis- 
try. In 1867 he was the Republican can- 
didate for State prison inspector of New 
York, but was defeated, though he rau 
ahead of the party ticket. 

In his ministerial work he has been hon- 
ored by his bishop with appointments to 
the leading churches in various cities — 
Brooklyn, Omaha, Kansas Cit}', Indian- 
apolis, &c., and wherever he went he drew 
large congregations, and brought prosper- 
ity to the churches. His sermons were 
practical, and showed him in sympathy 
with the people. They were progressive, 
up witli the times, full of live thought, lie 
was one of the few preachers who studied 
s up the cause of the bard times that be- 
gan in 1873 and continued to grow worse 
to this daj-. He saw that contraction of 
the currency was bankrupting the business 
classes and starving the wage peojjle. He 
became a Greenback man. He preached 
"^ seiTnons on the riglits of labor, and tiie 
duties of capital, and the sin of usury. 
These .attracted attention, calling fortii 
criticism from the bankers and nionoi)ol3' 
press, and commendation from the people. 
The result of it all was that in 1878 the 
National party of the Indianaitolis district 
nominated him for a seat in Congress. This 
district was decideiily Republican, hence 
the Democracy had no hope of success with 
one of tiieir own men, whether hard or 
soft, so on assemljling in convention thej' 
indorsed tlie noniiuation of Dr. De La 
Matyr, witli the liope, doubtless, that he 
would go into tlie Democratic caucus and 
vote with tiie party in Congress out of 
gratitude for tlieir "support. Tliey were 
mistaken in their man. Instead of being 
an olliee-seeking demagogue. Dr. De La 
Matyr is a statesiiiau of i)rin<iiile, of con- 
viction and couseience. 

Dr. De La Matyr made a most thorougli 
canvass of liis district ui)on tlie issues di- 
viding the National and Reinibliean pur- 
ties, and allliough his coinjx'titor, lion. 
Joim llauuali. wasou the fence between the 
two jiolieii's, with Icaiiiugs toward the Na- 
tional side, yet the hoetor vamiuisjied him 
ou the stimip and defeated him at the polls. 



The Doctor has already made a record 
in Congress, which does him honor and re- 
flects credit upon his constituents and his 
party. 

He is a close student, an industrious 
worker, a bold and vigilant defender of his 
faith, and a forcible and eloquent congres- 
sional debatei", hence he is feared and re- 
spected by his opponents, and regarded 
with confidence and pride by his political 
friends. 



EDWARD HOOKER GILLETTE, OF IOWA, 

is a native of Connecticut, having first seen 
the light in Bloomfield, in that State, Octo- 
ber 1, 1840. He is a son of Hon. Francis 




Gillette, the renowned anti-slavery cham- 
pion, wlio became famous in tlu' pro-slavery 
days b^ leading his party to defeat year 
after year, yet always coining oil' victorious; 
for true vielory is in the courage tliat fights 
majorities in the cause of rigiit. The old 
hero was elected to the L^uited States Sen- 
ate from Connecticut in 1854, as a Free- 
Soil candidate. He is now a staunch and 
intelligent leader of the National jiarty in 
his State. Edward was educated in the 
public schools, ami eonipleted his course in 
the Agricultural College of New York in 
18()'2. He emigrated to Des Moines. Iowa, 
in 18(53. where he has since lived, following 
the triple trade of farmer, builder, and 
manufacturer. 

He was a delegate to the first convention 
of the National party, whieli met at In- 
dianapolis in 187l!, and nominated I'eler 
Cooper for President. In 1878 he was nom- 



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inated for a seat in the Forty-sixth Con- 
gress by the National party of liis district, 
the 7th Iowa, the Democratic convention 
subsequently indorsing his nomination, 
and was elected over the Repiildican can- 
didate by a liandsome majority, after a vig- 
orous canvass of the district, 

Mr. Gillette is a man of decided ability, 
a close thinker, clear reasoner, and eloquent 
speaker. He has already made a good rec- 
ord in Congress by his speeches and his 
votes. He has won the confidence of the 
Nationals, the respect of the opposition 
parties, and the distinguished honor of being 
most violently denounced by the subsidized, 
hard-money press. 




JAMES B. WEAVER, OF IOWA, 

was born in Dayton, Ohio, June 12, 1833. 
His fatiier emigi-ated to Iowa in 1842. He 
received a good common school education, 
and adopted the law as a profession, grad- 
uating in the Cincinnati Law School in 
ISoG. He opened an office in Bloomfield, 
Iowa, at once, and soon took rank as a 
leading attorney and counselor. He was 
an original and active Republican, and when 
the war came he was among the first to en- 
list in the Union army. He was elected 
and commissioned 1st lieutenant of Com- 
pany G, 2d Iowa Infantry, in April, 1861, 
he having enlisted as a private. 

He was commissioned as major of tlie 
regiment on tlie 3d of October, 18G2, and 
promoted to the colonelcy by the unani- 
mous vote of the oflicers on the 12th of 
the same month, the colonel and lieutenant 
colonel having been kiUed at the battle of 



Corinth ; he was breveted brigadier-general 
of volunteers for gallant services on the 
field of battle, March 13, 1864, and served 
to the close of his term. In 1866 he was 
elected district attorney of the second judi- 
cial district of Iowa. He was appointed 
United States assessor of internal revenue 
for the first district of Iowa, January, 
1867, which office he held for six years, and 
until it was abolished by law. 

General Weaver was a Greenback man . 
for years before he broke with tlie Repub- 
lican party. But becoming convinced that 
a new party was a necessity, indeed the 
only hope of the country, he, in 1877, de- 
clared himself a National, and took the 
stump for Hon. D. P. Stubbs, National 
candidate for governor of Iowa. This pro- 
duced such consternation in the Republi- 
can camp that a council was held, and ex- 
Attorney-General Cutts was put forward 
as the champion of the Republican doc- 
trines on finance, with orders to discuss the 
question with General Weaver. They met 
in joint debate at Oskaloosa, Ottumwa, and 
Des Moines, the i-esult being an over- 
whelming victory for General Weaver an* 
thousands of converts to the Greenback 
doctrine. 

General Weaver was nominated for Con- 
gress by the National convention of the 
sixth Iowa district, in May, 1878, and at 
the close of a thorough joint canvass with 
his opponent, Hon. E. S. Sampson, the 
former member, he was triumphantly 
elected to the Forty-sixth Congi-ess by the 
handsome majority of 2,156 votes, over- 
coming a Republican majority of 4,000. 

In Congress, General Weaver has made 
a noble record, which is before the coun- 
try, and of which liis friends and the Na- 
tional party may well be proud. 

He is a man of first-class abUiity, and his 
powers of eloquence are of so higli an or- 
der that when he speaks, the House and 
the galleries listen. He is one of the very 
few that can hold the undivided and re- 
spectful attention of the House of Con- 
gress, and one of the very few who never 
fails to come ofl" victor in a running debate, 
which he never fails to do. General Wea- 
ver is a gentleman of the highest social 
qualities, as well as intellectual powers. 
Hence his popularity is very great wherever 
he is known. 



GEORGE W. LADD, OP MAINE, 

was born in Augusta, in that State, Sep- 
tember 28, 1818, and received an academic 
education, but was prevented from tak- 
ing a college course by the poverty of his 
faniilv and the responsibility wiiich rested 
upon "him by the death of his father. He 
gave up his own ambitious plans and hopes 



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which have culminated in the formation 
of the National Greenback party. He 
acted with the Democratic party up to 
and including the Presidential contest of 
187C. Early in the year 1877 he identified 
himself with the National Greenback part}', 
was nominated by them as their candidate 
for Congress ; was subsequently nominated 
to the same position by the Democratic 
party, and was elected to the Forty-sixth 
Congress, receiving 12.921 votes, against 
10,095 for L. Powers, Republican, 

He is a member of the Congressional 
Committee of the National party. 



and became an apprentice to an apothecary, 
serving six years, and thoroughly master- 
ing that important profession. At the age 
of twenty he located in the city of Bangor 
and opened an apothecary establishment, 
but subsetiuently retired from that business 
on account of fll health. He afterward 
engaged in the lumber trade, and has pur- 
sued that and tlie wholesale grocery and 
commission business ever since. 

Politically, he invariably acted with 
the Whig party ; was for eight years one 
of the executive committee of the State 
for tliat party. After the breaking up 
of the Whig party, he was one of the 
foremost in Maine in forming the Con- 
stitutional or Bell and Everett party. 
This party, be it remembered, exercised 
its large influence in attempting to pre- 
vent the groat contest that commenced 
in 18G1, but failed. He was a strong 
Union man, anil a staunch supporter 
of the war for the Union. He first voted 
with the Democrats in tlie Geo. B. Mc- 
Cl-llan campaign in ISHl. He continued 
to act witli thf Denioi-racy, and was 
elected unanimously a delegate to the 
National Union convention, held at 
Philadelphia, August 14, ISUG. 

lie was a candidate for Congress in 
18iiS on what was t lien called the Ohio 
or Pendleton platform, which the Diin- 
ocrat.s of tiie fouith illstrict of Maine 
were generally in favor of. He was 
defeated, but continued through the 
succeeding years of bankers' rule to 
adhere to those fundamental doctrines 



THOMPSON H. MUKCH, OF MAINE, 

is a native of Hampden, Penobscot county, 
in that State, and was born March 29, 
1838. His education was limited to the 
common school course. He spent some of 
his early years on the sea, but abandoned 
the life of a sailor for that of a stone-cut- 
ter. He has followed his trade for 18 years 
in various capacities, as apprentice, iour- 
neyman, foreman and contractor, dis- 
charging his duty faithfully in each station. 

Iiri877 Mr. Murch organized the Granite 
Cutters' International Institute, and was 
unanimously chosen chief executive offi- 
cer of it and editor of the official organ, 
the Granite Cutters'' International Journal, 
a trade paper of 42 columns, which he con- 
tinued to conduct with marked ability un- 
til January, 1879. 

Mr. Murch became a Greenback man in 
1876, and in Julj% 1878, he was nominated 
for Congress by the National Greenback 




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Labor party, and made the race against 
Hon. Eugene Hale, Kepublican, antl Hon. 
J. H. Martin, Democrat, defeating them 
both by a plurality of 1,442 votes, a victory 
of great signiticance when all the facts are 
considered, Mr. Hale is one of the strong- 
est men in the Republican party, who had 
carried the district two years beitore by a 
majority of abont 3,000, and in this con- 
test he had abundant intellectual and finan- 
cial aid from his party, while Mr. Murch 
had no help from outside, save that Colonel 
E. Daniels, of Washington, came volun- 
tarily into his district, and without pay de- 
livered some half-dozen speeches at differ- 
ent points, with powerful force and effect. 

Mr. Murch has been for many years an 
able and earnest labor reformer, and he is 
justly regarded as the most pronounced 
and earnest representative of the wage 
classes among the public men of this coun- 
try, and they are justly proud of his record 
and his ability. He has a large head, hence 
superior talents, pleasant manners, good 
social qualities, and fine abilities as a con- 
versationalist and public speaker, though 
exceptionally quiet and modest in charac- 
ter and habit. 

On taking his seat in Congress he united 
with the other National Congressmen in 
the formation of a congressional committee 
of the National party, and was unani- 
mously chosen chairman of that honorable 
body, which position he has filled with en- 
tire satisfaction to his associates and credit 
to himself. As a member of Congress he 
is quiet, firm, vigilant, and industrious. 




NICHOLAS FORD, OF MISSOURI, 

was born in county Wicklow, Ireland, 
July 23, 1830. He belongs to a good fam- 
ily, and was liberally educated. He is a 
true Irish gentleman, but not an aristocrat ; 
on the contrary, he is a thorough demo- 
crat, not in a partisan but in the true 
sense. He worships at the altar of Lib- 
erty, and hates tyrannj^ with his whole 
being. Like all true Irishmen, he is proud 
of the past heroic history of his country, 
and Indignant at the wrongs she has suf- 
fered and the oppressions and indignities 
imposed upon her still by the selfish and 
arrogant Briton and his Tory allies, who 
disgrace the soil which gave them birth. 

Though but a boy, Mr. Ford was an en- 
tliusiastic participant on the i)atriot side 
in the agitation, for it was not a i-evolu- 
tion, nor even a rebellion in tlic full sense, 
of 1848. Like Mitchell and Meagher, and 
other brave spirits, he advocated revolu- 
tion as the only remedy open to the Irish 
people, the only hope they could have of 
emancipation from tyrant rule and class 
oppression ; and when this hope died he 



sorrowfully bade adieu to the green isle of 
Erin, and sought an asylum in the far 
away but free land of Columbia. 

He came to this country a youth of 18 
summers, locating in the State of Missouri. 

^-Ir. Ford has traveled extensively over 
the mountains and plains of the great 
West, but he has for the past 20 years re- 
garded Missouri as his home. He resides 
in Rochester, but is and has been for some 
years engaged in merchandising in St. 
Joseph. 

In politics Mr. Ford has always been an 
independent man. He is a great student 
of history, hence he is too broad-minded 
to make a good partisan of the narrow 
type. He believes in equal rights and 
universal suffrage, and can only be held in 
allegiance to a party while it represents 
and advocates these great cardinal doc- 
trines. In 185G he supported John C. Fre- 
ment for President, and in 1860 Abraham 
Lincoln was liis standard-bearer. 

On the opening of the civil war of 1S61- 
'G5, he proved his loyalty to the Union and 
the principles of freedom by enlisting as 
a private soldier in the Federal army, and 
fighting the battles of the Republic which 
had adopted liini as a citizen and extended 
to him equal riglits with her native-born 
sons. He entered the army from motives 
of patnotism and principle, hence he 
sought no official ''onors, but did his duty 
faithfuliy. as a member of that noble, 
heroic guild composed of the common sol- 
diery. Nor has he ever sought civil oflSce. 

Mr. Ford was disgusted with the action 
of the old parties in demonetizing silver in 



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THE SPARTAN BAND 



1873, and from tliat 
date he lost all confi- 
dence in their loyalty 
to the best interests 
of the people. He sup- 
ported Pfter Cooper 
for Presiiji'iit in lS7(j. 
From tiiat time for- 
ward he has labored 
earnestl.v and hope- 
fully for the National 
party. 

In 1878 he was elec- 
ted to Congress, on 
the National Green- 
back ticket, over Mr. 
Ray, the Democratic 
nominee, wiiu had 
been elected to the 
Forty-tifth Conj^ress 
by over 4,000 major- 
ity. 

The fact that Mr. 
Ford defeated Mr. 
Ray by the substan- 
tial majority of 1,300 
votes proves not only that he is personally 
very popular, but tluit the principles of tin 
National party 
have already se- 
cured a domin- 
ant hold upon 
the voters of his 
district. 




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DANIEL LIND- 
SAY KUSSELL, 

of North Caro- 
lina, was born in 
Brunswick co., 
of that State, on 
the 7th of Au- 
gust, 1S4.5, and 
educated at the 
Bingham school, 
in Orange coun- 
ty, and also at 
the University of 
North Carolina. 

On reaching 
manhood lie ad- 
opted the law as 
ap.-ofession,and 
was admit teil to 
the bar hy the 
supreme cmut of 
the. Slate ill ISfjC. 

He was a mem- 
ber of the State 
Legislature for 
the two sessions 
1S(;4 and isc;.",, 
and in 1808 he 
was elected to 




ili>- lioiiorable posi- 
tion of judge of the 
superior court for 
the 4th judicial cir- 
cuit. He tilled this 
office for six years 
with di^tintruished a- 
bility. In 1871 he was 
a member of the State 
Constitutional Con- 
vention, and in 1876 
he was again return- 
ed to the Legislature 
from the county of 
Brunswick. He was 
elected to the present 
Congress as a Nation- 
al, over Hon. A. M. 
Waddell. the Demo- 
cratic nominee, bj" a 
handsome majority. 

Judge Russell is a 
man of marked abil- 
ity, and a sound finan- 
cial reformer ; and in 
the organization of 
of Representatives of the Korty- 
gress he allied himself with the 
National party, 
and became a 
member of the 
National Con- 
gressional Com- 
mittee, and also 
supported the 
nominee of that 
partv, Mr. Hen- 
drick B. Wright, 
for Speaker of 
the House, and 
of Colonel I>ee 
Crandall for the 
Clerk. 



WILLIAM D . 
KELLEY, 

of Pennsylvania 
was born in the 
city (if Pliiladel- 
jiliia. April 12, 
IsM, and receiv- 
ed a godil Eng- 
lisli education. 
He served as a 
juoof-reader in 
a ]niutiiiir clhce 
fora while, wlien 
a young man, 
ami then learned 
the jewelry busi- 
ness. He spent 
five year.> in Bos- 
ton as a jour- 
neyman jeweler, 



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when he returned to his native city, and 
took up t\\o study of the law. He acfjuired 
a good legal education, and also gave con- 
siderable attention to literature, both while 
a student and after he had entered upon 
the ])ractlce of his profession. 

ITe aeliieviMl both fame and success as an 
attorney, and was twice elected prosecut- 
ing attorney for the city and county of 
Piiiladelphia, and he served ten years on 
the ])ench as judge of the Court of Com- 
mon Plea-i of Philadelphia. A prominent 
gentleman formerly of that city said to the 
author: "Judge 
Kelley's lec- 
tm-es to pris- 
oners (to which 
I have often 
listened) were 
among the best 
sermons I have 
ever heard ! " 

He was a 
delegate to the 
National Re- 
publican Con- 
vention which 
nominated Mr. 
Lincoln in 18G0 
and was one of 
his most able 
and active sup- 
porters in the 
State of Penn- 
sylvania. He 
was elected to 
the Thirty-Sev- 
enth Congress 
in the fall of 
18G0, and has 
been returned 
as his own suc- 
cessor at each 
biennial elec- 
tion which has 
occurred since ; 
hence he has 
been elected 
ten times, and 
is in his nine- 
teenth year of 

continuous service in the House of Rep- 
resentatives — being the ranking member 
of that body; and he is one of the ablest, 
most industrious and conscientious. 

Judge Kelley is one of the ])ioneers in the 
Greenback movement, and one of the 
most able, clear-headed and suecessful 
educators of public opinion on this great 
question of tinance; and although lie re- 
mained in tlie Republican party until the 
date of the opening of the present Con- 
gress, yet few men have done more toward 
creating that popular demand for a cliange 
of financial policy which has ultimated in 



the organization of the National party; 
with which he is now fully identified, and 
of which he is one of the ablest, staunchest 
and most honorable leaders. 

Judge Kelley is so widely and well 
known that no elaborate biography of him 
is required here. 




HENDRICK B, WRIGHT, OF PENNSY1> 
VANIA, 

was born in 1808, at Plymouth, Luzerne 
county, Pennsylvania, He was educated 

at Wilkes Barre 
until fitted for 
college, and he 
graduated at 
Dickenson Col- 
lege in 1829. 

Selecting the 
law as his pro- 
fession, he pre- 
pared himself 
for practice by 
a rigid course 
of study, and 
was admitted 
to the bar in 
the year 1831, 

Three years 
later he was 
appointed dis- 
trict attorney 
for Luzerne co. 
by George M, 
Dallas, then at- 
torney-general 
and afterward 
VicePresident, 
Mr. Wright was 
elected a mem- 
ber of the house 
of representa- 
tives of the 
State Legisla- 
ture for three 
years insucces- 
sion-1841,18-42 
and 1843 — and 
was speaker of 
the house dur- 
ing his last term. He was sent as a dele- 
gate at large to the National Democratic 
Convention at Baltimore, in 1844, which 
nominated Polk and Dallas, and was hon- 
ored with the position of chairman of the 
convention. 

He has attended as a delegate each na- 
tional convention of the Democratic party 
since ; hence he has had an important part 
in the making of Presidents and in shaping 
the i)latfornis of his party. 

Mr. Wright has given the subject of 
labor reform great attention for some 
years ; and like all men who look into the 



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THE SPARTAN BAND 



qiif'stion, he saw that society was rapidly 
dividing into two irrcat classes, and that 
these classes are drifting constantly f urtlier 
and furtlitT apart — the rich growing richer 
and more arrogant and oppressive, and the 
poor still poorer and more dependent and 
humble. He espoused tiie cause of the in- 
dustrial classes years ago, and he has stood 
by them firmly ever since. "A Treatise 
on the Labor Pn^blem." written by him in 
1871, is a very able and clear exposition of 
the subject, and worthy tlie careful study 
of l('g'-l:itors. as well as tlie people. 

Mr. Wrigiit was elected to the Forty- 
Fiftli Congress as a Democrat, and acted 
with that part}', save when its policy con- 
flicted witii the interests of labor. lie was 
returned to tlie Forty-Sixth Congress as a 
Xational Greenbaelcer and Labor Keformer, 
receiving the support of the Greenback 
Democrats. On entering tlie present Con- 
gress he joined witii tlie otiier Xational 
Congressmen in tiie formation of a con- 
gressional committee of the new party, 
and stood as tlie National candidate for 
Speaker of the House. 



SETH HARTMAN YOCUII, OF PENNSYL- 
VANIA, 

was born August 2, 1834, on a farm in the 
the romantic region of tiie Catawissa. He 
is of sturdy Pennsylvania stock. His 
grandfatlier (Captain Joiin Yocum) re- 
cruited and commanded a company of 
Pennsylvania troops during the War of 
Independence. 
The famil}' have been farmers from time 




out of mind, and Seth was raised to that 
profession ; but he being ambitious for a 
better education than was obtainable at 
the country schools, and of more intellec- 
tual associations than the \ncinity of his 
native mountain town afiorded. he'went to 
Xew Berlin, at the age of 15, and appren- 
ticed himself to the printing business in a 
newspaper oflice. He subsequently paid 
his own way througli Dickinson College 
with money earned at the case as a jour- 
neyman printer, graduating in ISGO. On 
leaving college, Mr. Yocum established the 
Ashland Mountaineer, a campaism journal 
in the interest of the Republican party, 
wliich did yeoman service for I>incoln dur- 
ing that ever remarkable campaiirn of 1860. 
His paper was so successful that he con- 
tinued it until July, ISGl, when he threw 
down the pen and took up the sword, 
abandoned the tripod and mounted a 
horse. He entered tiie army as a private 
in the otii Pennsylvania Cavalry. He was 
promoted to a second lieutenancy in Feb- 
ruaiy, 1862, and rose to the rank of first 
lieutenant a few months later. He par- 
ticipated in all the battles of the Armv of 
the Potomac up to September, 1804; wiien. 
Ills healtli liaving failed, he resigned and 
returned home. 

He had begun the study of the law be- 
fore going into tiie armj% and on his 
return he finished his course, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1865. 

He remained in tlie Reiiublican party 
mitil 1877, thougii for some years he had 
been out of sympathy with 'its financial 
policy. His public aiUocacy of the prin- 
ciples of the Xational party dates from 
1877, wlien lie declared in favor of the 
Toledo platform. 

He was nominated for a seat in the 
Forty-sixth Congress by tlie Xational 
Congressional Convention in 1878, and 
at tlie close of a most able and thorough 
canvass he was elected over ex-Governor 
Curtin, the Democratic nominee. Tliis 
was a great victory, for the district 
was, iij) to two ywirs before, over- 
wiielmingly Deiiioeratic. his immediate 
predeces.-or liaving been elected, in 
1876, by a majority of over 5.000. 

Mr. Yocuiirs election was an extra- 
onlinaiy triumph for the Xational 
party, for tlie reason that he not only 
(lefeate(| the great war governor-^ 
overcoming an immense niajority to 
do it— but also for the reason that his 
competitor claimeil to be a sound Green- 
back man. It was not a conte-t be- 
tween the hard-money jioliey of the old 
tactions and ilie new iinancial doetrines 
of the new Xational party, but between 
the old Democratic party— which is all 
things to all sections, tfiat it may win 



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13' 



votes — and the young Xational party — 
which is founded upon the principles of 
justice, and advocates the same views in 
all sections of the country — North, Soutli, 
East and West. 

Mr. Yocum had very little assistance in 
his canvass — a few speeches by Colonel 
Hughes and Hon. F. P. Dewees, of Potts- 
ville, and Mr. Randall, of Illinois, being 
all the aid he received. 

Mr. Yocum is a man of decided ability 
and undoubted integrity, a clear thinker 
and good speaker, fine social qualities and 
pleasing address. He is a modest and quiet, 
but a substantial and industrious, public 
servant, and a reliable one. 



GEORGE W. JONES, OF TEXAS, 

is of Welch blood. He was born in Marion 
county, Alabama, September 5, 1828, and 
was chiefly raised in Tipton countj', Ten- 
nessee, from whence he removed to Bas- 
trop, Texas, his present home, at the age 
of 20, in 1848. 

His school education was limited to the 
very common schools of Tennessee, with a 
brief session at Bastrop Academy. He 
studied law at an early age, and has been 
very successful in that profession, though 
he took no college course even in that. In- 
deed, he is an excellent example of what 
we are wont to term self-made men, hav- 
ing got a good education in both literature 
and law without the aid of college pro- 
fessors. 

In 1856 he was elected disti'ict attorney, 
and filled the office with marked ability. 

He was an original Union man, support- 
ing Douglas in 1860, and resisting seces- 
sion with all the might of his influence 
and force of argument, maintaining that 
it was contrary to the genius of our insti- 
tutional government, and acquiesced in it 
as a revolutionary measure when over- 
whelmed by the action of his State. He 
enlisted as a private in tlie 17th regiment 
of Texas Infantry, and was elected lieuten- 
ant-colonel on the organization of the 
regiment, and on the resignation of tlie 
colonel he was promoted to that office, and 
commandetl tlie regiment until the close of 
the war, participatiuir in the battles of 
Mansfield, Pleasant Ilill. :\Iilligan's Bend, 
and other bloody engagements. At the 
close of the war he returned to Bastrop 
and resumed the practice of his profession, 
and also engaged in farming, as before. 

He was a member of the Constitutional 
Convention of 1866, where he was a leader 
of the party which lield tliat secession is 
revolutionary, hence dependent upon suc- 
cess for its vindication ; and as the South 
failed, the ordinance of secession was a 



nullity and the status of the States had 
not changed. 

He was elected Lieutenant-Governor by 
a majority of over 40,000 on the Conserva- 
tive or Union ticket, at the tu'St election 
under the new constitution. 

In 1876 he ran for Congress as an Inde- 
pendent, against Giddings, taking the po- 
sition that all issues of principle between 
the Democratic and Republican parties 
had been settled, and that they were now 
stumbling-blocks to statesmansliip. The 
financial question was not an issue, but 
during the canvass he was the guest of an 
uitelligent Greenback man, who led him 
into a line of investigation which resulted 
in his complete conversion to the financial 
doctrines of the National party. He tlien 
told his friends tliat he should make the 
next race for Congress on that issue. He 
kept his word, and in 1878 defeated the 
regular Democratic nominee, Hon. John 
Hancock, at the close of a most able and 
thorough canvass of the district. During 
this campaign Governor .Jones boldly ad- 
vocated the abolition of all systems of 
banks of issue, and the abandonment of 
the impracticable and ruinous plan of tying 
the paper currency down to a coin basis, 
holding that the Government should issue all 
the currenc}' direct from the Treasur}-, giv- 
ing it every property and function of money 
by the "tiat of law." Tliat it should not 
be redeemable in coin, but sliould itself be 
the standard money of the country, regu- 
lated as to volume by Congress according 
to the laws of business and tiie exigencies 
of the nation. 




14 



THE SPARTAN BAND 



He held that the new National party is 
the only national party, and that tlie old 
parties are but sectional factions, li^hthig 
for office over issues long since dead. 

On entering the present Congress, Gov- i 
ernor Jones boldly and unequivocally uni- 
ted with the other National Congressmen 
in the organization of a congressional 1 
committee of the National party, and no 
injustice to the other 14 menibL-rs f>f that 
committee is done, nor any depreciation of 
their merits intended, when I say tliat for 
vigor of thought, grasp of mind, clearness j 
of conception, integrity of pui-pose, and 
courage of o])inion, 
he has few ecpials and 
no superior among 
them, or in the House 
of Representatives. 
He has alreaily made 
a record in Congress 
that stamps him a 
man of great ability, 
inflexible integrity, 
and exceptional inde- 
pendence. Tiiat rec- 
ord is before the coim- 
try, and I shall not 
dwell upon it now. 

Governor Jones is 
a fine specimen of the 
representative Amer- 
ican. In personal 
appearance and so- 
cial characteristics he 
bears a striking re- 
semblance to Abra- 
ham Lincoln. He is 
simple-hearted, mod- 
est and kindly, j'et 
strong and firm. He 
is, therefore, a pop- 
ular and successful leader — a man eminent- 
ly fitted for the propagation of new polit- 
ical ideas. 

BRADLEY BARLOW, OF VERMONT, 

is a native of the Green "Mountain State, 
he having been ])orn in tlie town of Fair- 
field, May 12, 1S14. He was breil a farmer, 
and continued in tliat Iionorabie profession 
for many years. In 1858 he located in St. 
Albans, where he engaged in banking and 
other large business pursuits, whieh he has 
followed up to the present time. He is the 




president of the Vermont National Bank, 
and is also prominently connected with im- 
portant railroad enterprises in the State. 
He has been elected to the State Legislature 
six times, and to tlie senate of the State 
twice. He has during his career served 
as a member of two constitutional conven- 
tions of the State, and was for a number 
of years treasurer of his count}', all of 
wliieii evidences his ability, integrity and 
popularitv. 

Mr. Barlow is an exceptional character, 
he being at the same time a national banker 
and a National Greenbacker. Surel}% no 
otlier evidenoe is 
needed of \n< breadth 
of views and honest)' 
of purpose than that 
he should embrace 
and promote political 
doctrines which an- 
tagonize his personal 
interest in favor of 
the masses of tiie peo- 
ple of the country. 
If there were many 
more such bankers, 
the world would be 
the better for it. 

Mr. Barlow wjis 
formerly a Kepubli- 
can, and so strong a 
bold lias he upon the 
Confidence of the Re- 
publicans of his dis- 
trict that in his can- 
vass for Congi-ess in 
ISTS he was success- 
ful in leading the 
great majority into 
the National Green- 
back party. He had 
two competitors in the race, Mr. Grant 
and Mr. Waterman, both Democrats. His 
majority over both was over 3,000. 

(3n taking his seat in the present Con- 
gress Mr. Barlow joined the otlier National 
Congressmen in the orgaiuzation of a Na- 
tional congressional committee, and in 
distinctly drawing the line between the 
new National party and old sectional fac- 
tions, styled bj' courtesy Democratic and 
Rejiul^lican parties, by nominating and 
supporting a National candidate for 
Speaker. 



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PATENTS. PATENTS. 

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A Monthly Journal, of 16 Ko3'al Quarto pages, devoted to the History, Character, Social 

Life, Religious Traditions, G-overnment, Current Legends, &c., of the 

American Indian, including also a full Discussion of our 

Eelations to him as a people and a Grovernment. 

ESTABLISHED JAXUARY, 1878. 

A. B. MEACHAM, Editor, 

Ex-Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Ex-U. S. Commissioner, aut/wr of "The Wigwam and 

War- Path," &c. . 

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SOLICITOR AND ATTORNEY FOR 

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Prosecntlon of RejActed ami Defective Cases >Ia«le a Specialty. 

A^o Examinations as to Novelty and Patentability. Searches. as to Infringement, Owner- 
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menis, Licensee, kc, carefully and accurately prepared at short notice. 

T. W. TALLMADGE, 

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Le Droit Building, Washington, D, C. 



Practices before all the Government Departments, and before the Committees of 
Congress, Court of Claims and Commissions. 

Special, constant, and per^•onal attention paid to 

Claims for Pension, Bounty, Prize Money, 

AND ALL KINDS OF WAR CLAIMS. 

OoDfldently refers to the Ohio Senators and Members of Pongress, (all of whom have know^n 

liira intimately for j-ears;) the (Tovernment Odlcers, (with whom he has 

transacted bn:>mess the past seventeen years,) and 

TIIOl SA>iDN OF CI.IF.KTN IX AM. I>ARTK OF THE FKITF.n STATES. 



COLlMBl s, Onto, Fibruary 25, 1878. 
Til whom it may concern: 

From a long personal accpiaintanre with Capt. Then. W. Tallm.-idge, formerly of this 

: city and for many years engaged in jiublic busin<>ss here, 1 am prepared to say that Ca'pt. 

\ Tallmadge Is in every way a gentleman of the first re»peet«bility, honorable in his deport- 

1 men' and entitled to the confidence of the business public. 1 can most cheerfully commend 

hlra to all with whom he may come in contact. Very respectfully, 

Mii.Tov B.*KNE.«, Secretary <if State. 



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